The career of pianist Peter Rösel began in the middle of the Communist era in what was then East Germany and the pianist remains active as of the early 2020s. He has a large recording catalog that includes the complete piano works of Brahms and the complete sonatas of Beethoven.
Rösel was born on February 2, 1945, in Dresden. His father was a conductor, and his mother was a singer. Rösel took up the piano at six. Showing major talent, he was sent to Moscow to study at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Dmitri Bashkirov and then with Lev Oborin. Rösel excelled at competitions d...